At 05/15/2002 02:19 PM Wednesday, Broyles wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >In the years that I have been researching the Broyles family. I have >found >30 odd spellings of our name. It is the miss-spelling of our name >that has >confused people of those years. We blamed it on the English not >speaking >German and Germans not speaking English. It was even spelled several >different ways in Germany. So what different does it make. I like the >spelling of BROYLES , but I spell it the way I find it in my research. >I'm >pretty sure there has been other that came to America after our fore >fathers. Ken Broyles **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT*********** Hi Ken. Yes, there "may" have been other members of the same extended German family that came to America after our "John BROYLES". But, the circumstances were not the same to cause whatever-the-name to be changed to BROYLES. That was a one- time occurrence. George